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CALENDAR HISTORY OF THE KIOWA 



(ETII. ANN. 17 



stood to mean a higbev ami more rocky 

 elevation. Cf.i'op.ha'dlo'.do'ha', tso''ka 



Yii'daldii p'a — see G itadal-k' udal-dce j>'a. 



yai'po — rope, Basil. 



yai'po-gu ndal — " red sasli ; " the name of 

 three of the ten sashes of the Kd Use' nko, 

 made of red cloth (see page 285). 



yal'po-ko'nkya — "black sash ; " the prin- 

 cipal of the ten sashes of the Kit'itsenko, 

 made of black elk skin (see page 285'). 



Ya'piihe — warrior, soldier (no plural 

 form) ; the military organization of the 

 Kiowa (see page 229). Within the last 

 twenty years, since their intimate ac- 

 tinaintance with the whites, the old 

 term has been generally superseded by 

 8o'h; plural sole'i/o, from "soldier." 



yi'a — two. 



Yi'a k'op — "two mountains;" llouble 

 mountain, between the two forks of 

 Hrazos river, .Stonewall county, Texas. 



Yi'.a k'op p'a — apparently the name of 

 Double-mountain fork of Hrazos river. 



Yi'a r'a-da'ti — " at the two creeks," i. e., 

 "at the forks;" the forks of Washita 

 river, where Oageby creek joins the 

 nuiin stream, on the western line of Ok- 

 lahoma. When necessary, it is further 

 described as near the head of the 

 Washita. 



yi iitii te— see do'ii. 



Yi'atii tehe nko — see Dohe'iiko. 



Ze'bii-do -k'i'a — see .i' lo-t' ai' ii . 



Zebii-giaui — "Long-arrows;" an uni- 

 dentified baud of the Apache proper 

 (see Tagil' i.) 



ze'bat — arrow, plural :ehii. The medicine 

 lances carried by Set-t'a'inte and Tiiu- 

 gu'ildal were also called ze'bat. 



ze'dalbe — terrible, powerful, wonderful, 

 dangerous; nydze' dulhe, it is wonderful. 



zep — milk, teat. 



zepko — bow (for shooting). 



Ze'pko-ee'tte — " I!ig-bow,'' from zepko, 

 ee't, and te; (1) a Kiowa war chief about 

 1843. (2) his grandson and successor 

 of the present day. the "Zipkoh Eta" 

 of Battey. 



ZiPKdII ETA — see Zi'pko-rr lie. 



zo'dal — vomiting; vomit (mum), zodal; 

 I vomit, dehxiMo. 



Zo'dalton p'a — "vomiting spring (or 

 water) creek ; " t he iipper p.art of Wal- 

 nut creek, a southern tributary of the 

 Washita, on the reservation ; so called 

 on account of a (medicinal f) spring, 

 near its head, which induces vomiting. 

 Sometimes known to the whites as 

 Stinking creek. 



zou — tooth, plural zonko. 



ZoTik'i'a — "Tooth-man;" a Kiowa war- 

 rior and Florida prisoner in 1875; also 

 known as^^i'iiosii'/ifi'r «," (ireeu-shield- 

 man," from kin or ki/iiili, Sii'lie, and k' in. 



Zo'ntam — .a Kiowa warrior and Floiida 

 prisoner in 1875, afterward educated 

 in the East and ordained as an Episco- 

 pal minister in 1881 under the name of 

 PaulZotom; now with his tribe. The 

 name refers to biting, from zoil, tooth. 

 He is sometimes called P'o'dal-d dalte, 

 "Snake-head." 



zo'ta' — a corral or driveway for catching 

 antelope (see page 809). Knzo tiitxo 'la, 

 I am going to make a corral ; figura- 

 tively, I am going to entrap some one. 



ZoTOM, Paul — see Zo'ntam. 



EXGLISH-KIOWA GLOSSARY ' 



Abell, W. H., special agent — see Pa'- 



ehe'nigo'te. 

 abnormal — see t'o'idti'. 

 above, he is — see gyatai'de. 

 acorn — do' go' l-e. 



Adams, Agent Charles E. — A'ddm. 

 Adkins, John — Kabo'dalk'i'a. 

 adobe — Iso'pain. 



Adobe Walls. Texas — Gii a'na-dc-'ta'ho. 

 Adoption dance — him giian. 

 afraid, I am — gyape'to. 



after — kigi'a, kjidka'n, togija. 



afternoon — dehi'n, dtkiiisa. 



agency — Ezi'i iiya. 



Agua Negra (?), Texas — Toil ko n. 



alike — pd tsoga . 



Allison, William — Taodalhe'nte. 



alone-— see solitary. 



Americans — T'o-t'a'ka -i. 



amulet — d'de. 



and — yo. 



antelope — t'a, tap. 



•The croas refereuet-s jtre nsually to the Kiowa form which occurs in the text, aud not necessarily 

 to the principal form of the word. 



